T'was the season
A wrap-up on the KU football team's season paints an encouraging look ahead, and the KU volleyball team ends one of its most successful years ever.
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Finals
Today's Kansan is the last issue of this semester, and this is the last regular day of classes. Publication of the Kansan will resume Jan. 15, the first day of classes next semester.
Agony of de sleet
A chance of light rain will accompany cloudy skies today. Temperatures will be in the mid 30s and the rain may change to snow tonight.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 73 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Monday
December 8,1986
Proposed cuts jeopardize classes
Bv ALISON YOUNG
Staff writer
Staff Write
Kansas' bleak economic situation has hit home for KU students, hundreds of whom were turned away from full classes for next semester.
The University's budget, which already was strained by a record fall enrollment, faces more tightening because of Governor-elect Mike Hayden's proposed 3.8 percent budget cuts for all state agencies, KU officials said recently.
Administrators said last week that about 100 sections, in which students pre-enrolled, could be canceled because of proposed budget cuts.
Class offerings are so limited that the University may send advisory letters to students who have been admitted for the spring semester and plan to
enroll next month, officials said.
Bruce Lindvall, director of admissions, said he didn't want students to pack up and move to Kansas if the courses they were expecting weren't available.
According to statistics generated by the enrollment center Nov. 26, after main enrollment was completed, several basic classes turned away hundreds of students.
areas of students.
The statistics show the number of students who tried to enroll in a course but couldn't because it was full. These figures may be inflated because a single student could have been turned away from several choices in the same department.
According to statistics:
According to statistics:
Western Civilization 104 enrolled 678 students.
but turned away 399.
■ Communications 150 enrolled 753 students, but turned away 837; COMS 139 enrolled 183 students, but turned away 256.
Economics 104 enrolled 303 students, but turned away 183.
■ Math 115 enrolled 830 students, but turned away 90; MATH 121 enrolled 188, but denied 23; and MATH 122 enrolled 382, but denied 51.
- Five of the seven liberal arts required 200-level English courses were closed, turning away a total of 758 students, including 26 juniors and one senior.
Political Science 110 enrolled 501 students, but denied 271.
See CLASSES, p. 5, col. 1
Honduran troops airlifted by U.S., governments say
From Kansan wires
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduran warplanes and troops fiercely by U.S. helicopters yesterday attacked about 1,000 Nicaraguan government forces who had violated Honduran territory, the United States and Honduras said.
In Managua, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto said U.S. warplanes had bombed two
troops along the two countries' border in response to an incursion Thursday by 200 Nicaraguan troops who allegedly attacked a border outpost, wounding three Honduran soldiers and capturing two others.
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In Tegucigalpa, U.S. and Honduran officials refused to reveal how many U.S. aircraft were used or how many Honduran troops were ferried to Jamastran, about 48 miles east of the capital.
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BY BETH COPELAND
David Awbrey considers himself a victim of history. The Vietnam War and
The Vietnam War and a general disdain for the political system thrust him into a role that would enable him to aggressively seek change.
KU students - by a four-vote margin - elected Awbrey, then a history major from Hutchinson, student body president in 1969.
As a junior, Awbrey wanted to use the post to change what he thought history had made of U.S. society; corrupt, racist and militarily aggressive.
Awbrey armed his coalition, the Independent Student Party, with a platform that offered "a new pattern of student involvement," according to a March 19, 1969, Kansan article.
Regarding national involvement, the coalition sought to end the Vietnam War "because it is illegal, inhuman and immoral." He supported the elimination of the Selective Service System, calling it "an insult to a nation of free men."
"We do not presume that if we are elected, the Vietnam tragedy will end, the draft laws will be repealed or the problems of the cities will vanish," he wrote. "However, we feel that KU is implicitly involved in our political society . . . and that by ignoring questions of national policy we would be doing our education and beliefs a disservice."
On campus, Awbrey's coalition advocated eliminating academic credit for ROTC courses and limiting campus military recruitment to the Military Science Building.
Awbrey articulated his position in a March 25, 1969, letter to the editor in the Kansan, in which he responded to criticism that his platform was too broad and that students had little influence over national policy.
Looking back, Awbrey, 38. an assistant editorial editor at the Wichita Eagle-Beacon, smiles at his zealous non-conformity.
Awbrey described his college personality as politically revolutionary, and emphasized that he was not a "hippie drug user" like many students in the '60s.
"I thought drugs would free people's minds and politics would free people's lives," he said recently.
Tom Gleason, a Lawrence lawyer and friend of Awbrey, said Awbrey strongly believed that all could be accomplished if efforts were devoted.
"David's personality isn't much different now," he said. "He has always had an innate sense of justice for all. This is seen as much in his editorials as when he was in student government."
Awbrey described his term as student body president as "total chaos." Meetings would go on constantly and clusters of students — at the expense of classes — would sit and talk about politics, he said.
While in office, Awbrey fought to eliminate the mandatory liberal arts graduation requirement, a move he regrets today.
"We tried so hard to get rid of liberal arts education." Awbrev reflected. "That was the big-
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